Author: By Neringa / Source: Bored Panda
One September evening, Faye Lewis, a student on her way to becoming a family nurse practitioner, was going through her items with her mom and talking about the struggles that she was encountering while pursuing her Doctorate. Her mom was encouraging Faye to keep going and not give up.
That same evening, the student found a plastic bag full of her old badges: “[I] noticed that my new badge now listed my BSN so, I snapped the photo – to encourage myself”. Faye Lewis, then a 27-year-old shared the photo on her Facebook in order to motivate herself to push through the first difficult weeks of graduate school.One day Faye Lewis, while struggling with her doctorate studies, decided to give herself a boost of motivation
“I had been through a lot, and I knew I could do this too. I didn’t post it for attention. I just wanted to have this photo to motivate me through my Doctorate program,” said Lewis.
“I just needed to remind myself how far I’ve come,” she said. “I never in a million years would think it would also motivate other people to go for what they want.”
She went through her stuff and found a bag with all of her work badges and posted a picture of them on her Facebook
When Faye was 16, she got her first job at KFC as a team member. She wanted to help out her parents and also have some extra cash, but as she says, “I knew I wanted to be nurse. I love to help people. I do it with joy in my heart.”
Faye continued working at KFC even when she went off to college, however, things didn’t go exactly as planned – she received Bs in two of her classes and was rejected from nursing school. To add to…
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